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Doe v. Holy See (9th Cir. - March 3, 2009)

By Shaun Martin

There are many interesting sovereign "nations" out there. Monaco. Andorra. Sealand. Hong Kong. They're even more interesting when you've got to deal with them on the same judicial procedural terms that you use with "regular" nations, since the underlying doctrines don't always make sense as applied to these special cases. (I'm thinking, for example, about the rules that used to say that there was no Article III jurisdiction over residents of Hong Kong during the British era because they weren't read more

Full post as published by California Appellate Report on March 03, 2009 (boomark / email).